The moon is open for business, and entrepreneurs are racing to make billions

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The moon is open for business.

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The death of hobbies

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Hobbies have been killed off and milked for cash — but in the rush to turn a passion into a side hustle, the fire a person has for that activity can be snuffed out.

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How side hustles turned everyone's leisure activities into work

Walmart and Target employees reveal the most dangerous parts of working in retail, from towers of boxes to armed customers and inattentive drivers

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"It's not the most dangerous job in America, but it's moving up the list," a Walmart employee in Minnesota said.

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Women in Climate Leadership: Meet 10 leaders who refuse to let the climate crisis go unchecked

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RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye

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The Metaverse, once the hottest idea in tech, is headed to the industry's graveyard of failed fads.

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An obituary for the latest fad to join the tech graveyard

Amazon employees being pushed out of the company have a little-known Slack channel. Leaked messages reveal anguish, despair, but also community.

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Tech's hottest trends: what's cool and what's not among Silicon Valley's elite

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As the tech world clamors around generative AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT the trends of last year like crypto and the metaverse have fallen by the wayside.

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3 retirees on their biggest fears in the year leading up to retirement, and which of them actually mattered

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Why Reddit and TikTok are hating on MLM 'huns'

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People love to hate on MLM "huns," but they ignore the way companies target women looking for an economic leg up.

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The outrage misses the real scammers

Ozempic and other new weight-loss drugs could save lives. Too bad millions of Americans are being denied access to them.

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While the while the healthcare system battles it out over revolutionary new weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, people who most need obesity treatment are stuck without access to these critical drugs.

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